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<img alt="czech republic diagramm" class="Image img__fid__10791 img__view_mode__default attr__format__default attr__field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]__czech republic diagramm attr__field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]__czech" src="http://solarthermalworld.org/sites/gstec/files/czech_republic_diagramme.png" title="czech republic diagramm" typeof="Image" /><strong>Almost a year after the first call for applications for Czech support scheme Nová Zelená Úsporám (New Green Savings programme) in August 2013, the same <a href="http://solarthermalworld.org/content/czech-republic-new-green-savings-programme-gets-wrong-foot">negative attitude</a> still pervades the solar system supplier segment. Companies have especially criticised the low financial support and the high administrative burden. The second call of the programme started on 1 April 2014 under the same dissatisfying conditions for solar water heating systems. The Czech Republic’s market volume saw another drop in 2013, this time by 11 %, as can be seen on the chart from the Ministry of Industry and Trade. “Although the sales of domestic companies are shrinking at an alarming rate each year, there are new companies, including online-only shops, which import collectors from China,” Aleš Bufka, who is responsible for the national solar statistics at the Ministry of Industry and Trade, explains. “The customs statistics show many small units by private persons. It seems that people purchase imported collectors to cover their personal demand.” </strong></div>
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Source: Ministry of Industry and Trade</div>
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Vít Prečan, Sales Manager at TWI, one of the biggest solar thermal manufacturers in the Czech Republic, mostly complains about the amount of paperwork which hasn’t got smaller since the first call. Applications require very precise and in-depth information on the system to guarantee the customer a certain quality. But Prečan also says that solar system suppliers need about twice as long for every installation.</div>
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<strong>Clients troubled by extensive paperwork</strong></div>
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“Low financial support and high administrative burden,” is how Radek Fiala sums up the situation in one sentence. The Sales and Technical Department Manager at 4T, a solar thermal importer, says that many people buy a solar thermal system without applying for subsidies and this for good reason: To receive the maximum subsidy of Czech Crown (CZK) 35,000 (EUR 1,274), customers need to invest over CZK 80,000 (EUR 2,912) in a solar thermal system. However, if the household consist of only two people, a system for CZK 56,000 to 65,000 is often enough. Considering the extensive paperwork, the 40 % subsidy just isn’t that attractive to many clients, especially when they need to pay between CZK 5,000 (EUR 182) and CZK 8,000 (EUR 291) for an energy audit. </div>
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But it is not only the industry which blames the “fathers” of the current support scheme. Criticism can also be heard from former political leaders, such as Martin Bursík, formerly Czech Minister for the Environment and Deputy Prime Minister. Bursík was the man who devised and politically enforced the original Zelená Úsporám in 2009. “Conditions have been specified in a way that prevents the programme from becoming widespread, because the funds of Nová Zelená Úsporám are very limited,” Bursík says. The former minister for the environment points out that the current programme budget of CZK 1 billion (EUR 36.4 million) is 20 times smaller than the CZK 20 billion (EUR 728.2 million) the original Zelená Úsporám had available. “Former Environment Minister Tomáš Chalupa approved a gradual purchase of Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), meaning that funds do not need to be present at the beginning of the programme,” Bursík lists one of the positive aspects of the new regulations. “But most importantly, by purchasing Assigned Amount Units (AAUs), companies no longer need to compensate for all the CO<sub>2</sub> they produce,” the former minister explains. “That just increases the margins of big industrial companies, but cuts state revenues in half. As Nová Zelená Úsporám is only financed by AAU sales, this has very much put a strain on the available resources.” </div>
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“Chalupa then proposed a bill, saying that 35 % of the revenues from AAU auctions would be provided to the Ministry of Industry in 2014-2015 and 40 % of it between 2015 and 2020,” Bursík criticises as well. “By doing that, he stripped the programme budget of another 35 to 40 % of its funds.” </div>
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<a href="http://www.twi.cz">www.twi.cz</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.nzu.cz">www.nzu.cz</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.mpo.cz">www.mpo.cz</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.4t.cz">www.4t.cz</a>
<p> <strong>This article was written by Vladislava Adamenkova, a freelance writer on the solar thermal sector with a focus on the markets of Eastern and South-East Europe. </strong></p></div>
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<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong><img alt="" class="Image img__fid__5911 img__view_mode__media_large attr__format__media_large" src="http://www.solarthermalworld.org/sites/gstec/files/styles/large/public/tschechische_statistik_0.png?itok=FMdyBD4K" typeof="Image" />The annual market report of the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade, MPO, confirmed two things: the big drop in annual market volume in 2011 and the increasing market share of vacuum tube collectors. The newly installed collector area decreased by 28 % after the government had stopped the incentive programme Zelená Úsporám at the end of 2010. And already every fourth collector was equipped with vacuum tube technology in 2011. The chart shows the flat plate and vacuum tube collector area installed each year.</strong><br />
Source: Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade</p>
<p>The survey is based on questionnaires filled in by solar thermal system suppliers. Aleš Bufka, who is the author of the annual studies and works for MPO, summarises the survey results on up to 20 pages. You can find the studies for 2010 and 2011 attached to this news piece. The study for 2012 will be published later this year at this <a href="http://www.mpo.cz/cz/energetika-a-suroviny/statistiky-energetika">link</a>.</p>
<p>“Since 2007, we have been able to observe a new phenomenon on the market, namely the growing number of companies which import Chinese vacuum tube collectors,” explains Bufka. There are two reasons for this trend: one is the participation of Chinese manufacturers at international exhibitions, the other their collector’s favourable import prices.</p>
<p>The study focuses on the annual number of imports and on collector production rather than on the yearly installations. There may be a delay between the import or production of collectors and their installation, but the difference is not significant, says Bufka. In addition, the 2011 survey included a question about the installed solar collector area and the statistics of subsidised collector area.</p>
<p>MPO carried out its first market survey in 2004. Back then, one published market figure did not match another. The more rapidly the number of solar thermal system suppliers increased in the following years, the more difficult the annual statistics became, too. For example, the web page of the former subsidy scheme Zelená Úsporám already listed <a href="http://www.zelenausporam.cz/vyhledavani/vyhledavani-vyrobku/?s=1&amp;st=&amp;type=nazev_vyrobku&amp;t%5B%5D=9&amp;t%5B%5D=26&amp;t%5B%5D=27">599 collector models</a> in the middle of February 2013. Since 2008, Bufka has also discovered a growing number of online stores which sell solar collectors. There are certainly those companies which do not wish to participate in a market survey of this kind, but MPO estimates the missing data based on the statistics available from customs authorities.</p>
<p>Through his regular solar thermal surveys, Bufka has also acquired a profound knowledge of the history of the solar thermal sector in the region: Solar thermal collectors have been installed in former Czechoslovakia since the end of the seventies. The oldest solar thermal system was set up in 1978 in the area of Čechtín in the southern part of the Republic and the oldest solar thermal system still in operation was installed in 1982 in Šumava, a county bordering Austria. Many solar thermal systems installed in the mid-80s are still running. 1989 was then the starting year for many new companies to produce or import solar thermal collectors in and to the Czech Republic.</p>
<p>For more information, please contact:<br /><strong>Ing. Aleš Bufka</strong><br />
oddělení surovinové a energetické statistiky<br />
Ministerstvo průmyslu a obchodu ČR<br />
Na Františku 32, Praha, 110 15<br />
E-mail: <a href="mailto:bufka@mpo.cz">bufka@mpo.cz</a><br />
Telephone: 224 852 389</p>
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